On the Psychology of Military Incompetence (Häftad)
avNorman F. Dixon, M. Dixon
ISBN: 9780712658898 - UTGIVEN: 199401This text surveys 100 years of military inefficiency from the Crimean War to World War II. It examines the social psychology of military organizations, provides case studies of individual commanders and indentifies an alarming pattern in the causes of military disaster.[...]
The Organizational Learning Cycle (Inbunden)
avNancy M. Dixon
ISBN: 9780566080586 - UTGIVEN: 199904Complete with five new or revised chapters, the second edition of this book on the workings of organizations delves into the infrastructure required for top performance, using new case material from, among others, BP and the US Army.[...]
Boundaries: How the Mason-Dixon Line Settled a Family Feud and Divided a Nation (Häftad)
avSally M. Walker
ISBN: 9780763673314 - UTGIVEN: 2014-09The Mason-Dixon Line's history, replete with property disputes, persecution, and ideological conflicts, traverses our country's history from its founding to today.
We live in a world of boundaries -- geographic, scientific, cultural, and religious. One of America's most enduring boundaries is th[...]
Common Knowledge (Inbunden)
avNancy M. Dixon
ISBN: 9780875849041 - UTGIVEN: 200003Breakthrough research on knowledge transfer reveals five proven methods for making knowledge sharing a reality - which are right for your company? While external knowledge - about customers, about competitors - is critical, it rarely provides a competitive edge for companies because such information[...]
Environmental Statistics With R and S-plus (Inbunden)
avSteven P. Millard, Neerchal K. Nagaraj, Philip M. Dixon
ISBN: 9781439810279 - UTGIVEN: 2014-12-13-
Land Contracts In Queensland (Pocket)
avS. A. Christensen, W.M. Dixon, W. D. Duncan, Stephen E. Jones
ISBN: 9781862878358 - UTGIVEN: 2011-07-18Land Contracts in Queensland provides a thorough, user-friendly account of the law relating to buying and selling freehold land in Queensland.[...]
Blues & Gospel Records, 1890-1943 (Inbunden)
avRobert M. W. Dixon, Howard W. Rye, John Godrich
ISBN: 9780198162391 - UTGIVEN: 1997-10Since its first edition in 1964, Dixon and Godrich's Blues and Gospel Records has been dubbed "the bible" for collectors of pre-war African American music. It provides an exhaustive listing of all recordings made up to the end of 1943 in a distinctively African American style, excluding those custom[...]
A Semantic Approach To English Grammar (Pocket)
avR. M. W. Dixon
ISBN: 9780199247400 - UTGIVEN: 2005-06-30Shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar and meaning interrelate. This book starts from the notion that a speaker codes a meaning into grammatical forms which the listener is then able to recover. It uncovers a rationale for the varying grammatical properties of diffe[...]
Basic Linguistic Theory (Häftad)
avR. M. W. Dixon
ISBN: 9780199571062 - UTGIVEN: 200910In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a new and fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis. In three clearly written and accessible volumes, he describes how best to go about doing linguistics, the most satis[...]
Basic Linguistic Theory (Häftad)
avR. M. W. Dixon
ISBN: 9780199571086 - UTGIVEN: 200910In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a new and fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis. In three clearly written and accessible volumes, he describes how best to go about doing linguistics, the most satis[...]
Basic Linguistic Theory (Häftad)
avR. M. W. Dixon
ISBN: 9780199571109 - UTGIVEN: 201205Basic Linguistic Theory provides a fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis. In crystal-clear prose, R. M. W. Dixon describes how to go about doing linguistics. He show how grammatical structures and rules may be worked[...]
Human Sectional Anatomy (Häftad)
avHarold Ellis, Bari M. Logan, Adrian K. Dixon
ISBN: 9780340985168 - UTGIVEN: 200909First published in 1991, Human Sectional Anatomy set new standards for the quality of cadaver sections and accompanying radiological images. Now in its third edition, this unsurpassed quality remains and is further enhanced by some useful new material. As with the previous editions, the superb full[...]
The Rise and Fall of Languages (Pocket)
avRobert M. W. Dixon
ISBN: 9780521626545 - UTGIVEN: 1998-01This book puts forward a new approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of the 100,000 or more years that humans have had language, states of equilibrium have existed during which linguistic features diffused across the languages in a[...]
Yonder Come the Blues (Pocket)
avPaul Oliver, Tony Russell, Robert M. W. Dixon
ISBN: 9780521787772 - UTGIVEN: 2001-03Yonder Come the Blues combines three influential and much-quoted books: Savannah Syncopators; Blacks, Whites and Blues and Recording the Blues. Updated with additional new essays, the book discusses the crucial early development of the blues as a music of Blacks in the United States, explaining some[...]
Searching for Aboriginal Languages (Häftad)
avR. M. W. Dixon
ISBN: 9781108025041 - UTGIVEN: 201102In the early 1960s, R. M. W. (Bob) Dixon was one of the first linguists to study the Aboriginal languages of northeast Queensland, Australia. He found that some languages of the coastal rainforest were still in daily use, but others were only half-remembered by a single elder. This autobiographical [...]
